If when you hear the phrase eat-in kitchen you think a) yeah right, or b) does standing next to my countertop count? , then to you I say this: consider the wall-mounted drop leaf table.
Pastoral poetry is a genre that typically relates to country/rural life and often depicts the lives of shepherds. This sort of poetry describes the simple and pure lives of the shepherds, along with the notion that they are free from the corruption of life in the city.
Eliot's own modernist poem The Waste Land (1922) mirrors the futility and anarchy in its own way, in its fragmented structure, and the absence of an obvious central, unifying narrative. This is in fact a rhetorical technique to convey the poem's theme: The decay and fragmentation of Western Culture.